"When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck."
— Public speaking

January 1, 1970

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Attributed to Richard Cardinal Cushing. Everett Dirksen and Herbert V. Prochnow, Quotation Finder, p. 55 (1971). Reported as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).